Hi All,
is there any way how to resize virtual disk within Storage Spaces in Windows Server 2012? I have 4TB (Thin provisioned) virtual disk which contains only 400GB of data and I would like to shrink virtual disk, but resize-virtual disk in powershell gives me "not supported" error.
2008 R2 domain simple DFS setup between 2 DCs\file servers (2008R2 and 2012R2).
When I run dfsdiag /testdfsintegrity /dfsroot:\\[dfs namespace]/recurse /full, I get 'ACL of the shares are inconsistent,' warnings for both of my targets. In doing some digging I noticed an oddity in the permissions listed for my folder targets. It appears that the access permissions for the CREATOR OWNER are listed differently depending on which server I am viewing them from.
From a 2012R2 server the CREATOR OWNER is listed as having "Full Control". But from a 2008R2 box the CREATOR OWNER is listed as having "Special" permissions. If I show what special permissions actually are it's the same as full permissions. Could it be this permissions level difference (even though there's no real difference) that's causing the 'ACL of shares are inconsistent,' warning? I can't find any other difference in the permission levels.
From 2008R2
From 2012R2
Greetings,
I'm kind of stumped, I've never seen this before. I've seen where the "Extend Volume" option is grayed out, but never have I seen where you can get into the Wizard, but not continue.
Here is a screenshot:
Any information would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Jeremy
I inadvertently added an external USB drive to my Windows Home Server Storage Hard Drives. Now it appears there is no data on the disk. How can I recover the data? I tried using PC Tools™ File Recover 8 but nothing was recovered.
I am running Windows 2008 R2 Domain Controllers on 2008 R2 Functional Level. Only our IT Dept is running Windows 8.1, everyone else on 7 Enterprise SP1 edition.
I cannot get Folder Redirection to work on Windows 8.1 which I need to get completed because the current File Server that hosts the current Userprofile\User\Documents is going to be upgraded to Windows Server 2012 R2 DFS.
I ran a group policy results on my Machine and Username, the Folder Redirection Policy is shown with no errors. Yet my "Documents' still point to C:\.
Hi,
I have created File server DFS namespace between 2 windows 2008 R2 server. namespace mode is 2008. I have copied 3 TB data on file server 1. now it is getting replicated from file server 1 to file server 2. till now the data is not fully replicated.
My question is how can I check the status of DFS replication? how will I come to know that the initial replication is completed.
Hello,
I have a Unix server that hosted an NFS share and is working.
I need connect that NFS share to one Windows Server 2008 R2
Once I can see the files on my Windows Server 2008 R2 (NFS) i need to share but now from the Windows Server (CIFS to my clients)
The goal is, avoid create users on the Unix operating system and only allow access based on the IP of my Windows server
It is possible do this on Windows Server? Currently a solution between Unix (NFS) and Linux (Samba) can achieve this.
I try mount de NFS share on my Windows Server and i can see the folders (Map Drive), but i cant see the share options.
Also i try the Subst command to make a virtual disk and then share but i cant see the share options.
Sorry for my english
Thanks a lot
Hello all - hope someone can help me with this.
Small office had Server2003R2 with 7 XP SP3 machines with domain. Added a Server2008R2, dcpromo, added Roles for DHCP, DNS, AD. FSMO shows the roles all to the new Server2008R2 machine. Tried to dcpromo to demote the Server2003R2 box, but error "the operation failed because a domain controller could not be contacted for domain that contains an account for this computer". DNS shows pointer records for both DC's. Not sure why this is giving the error.
ALSO (and a bigger problem since I can live with the Server2003 box being an addition DC right now), they're running an application in this office that has a client install on the XP machines, but the data resides on the server (chiropractor software). It worked fine in Server2003, but it is severely slow now on the XP machines (for instance, clicking on a client in the software would bring up their information/history dialog box in no time flat on Server2003, but now you wait sometimes 1-2 minutes!).
I've done some searching on this issue, and saw some info regarding SMB2.0 causing issues, so I've disabled it on the server in the registry - to no avail. Anyone have any other ideas????????? Thanks in advance!
I realize that this might or might not be common and I haven't read or seen anything about this. So here goes...
No clustering. Just a strightup adding LUNs to a server mount point.
I have no issues adding a lun to a mount point (folder on the C-Drive) called MountPoint1. I can build a folder within MountPoint1 and add another LUN to a mountpoint within the first called NestedMountPoint1. I can build another folder within NestedMountPoint1 and add another LUN to a mountpoint within the second called NestedMountPoint2.
c:\MountPoiint1 (500GB)
|-NestedMountPoint1 (300GB)
|-NestedMountPoint2 (300GB)
First, do people do this? (Is it a normal practice?) (Recommended?)
Second, If it is a normal practice, Is there a limit on how many you can nest?
I can see doing this to add storage to a drive. BUT...
Hello,
I was attempting to configure the servers in my domain-based DFS namespace to use full qualified domain names. I have four namespace servers, one running Windows Server 2012 R2, the others running Windows Server 2008 R2. The namespace runs in Windows Server 2000 mode. I updated the 2012 server using 'Set-DfsnServerConfiguration'. I ran into a problem with the first of the 2008 R2 servers. I ran the command:
Dfsutil.exe server registry dfsdnsconfig set <servername fqdn>
And removed and re-added the namespace server using the DFS Management GUI. The namespace server appeared in its NetBIOS format so I restarted the DFS services but this had no effect. I then foundhttps://support.microsoft.com/kb/244380 and tried following the recommended steps. I tried to remove the namespace server once again, this time I saw the warning:
The namespace <namespace share> on <servername> cannot be detected. The system cannot find the file specified. Do you want to forcibly remove the namespace server?
At this point, I'm a little lost - I can see the root share still exists on the problem namespace server (both in c:\dfsroots and when performing a 'net view'). The problem server appears in the 'remoteServerName' attribute in the DFS-Configuration container in ADSIEDIT. The root share no longer has an entry in the registry (under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DFS\Roots\Domain) although, if I import this from another namespace server and then try to remove the namespace server, I still see the same error.
Any suggestions would be appreciated!
Not sure if this falls into this category so I apologize in advance.
I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 Core OS (MyFileServer1) on the domain and I want to migrate the Network Shares for my departments and user's my documents to a Windows Server 2012 R2 (MyFileServer2) server. It is not a traditional file server that uses DFS or NFS roles/features. It was just a server and created shared folders then deployed via GPO Drive Mappings to my users.
I am trying to determine what is the best course of action on moving those folders over and keeping the Share/NTFS permissions to the new server. I am also wondering should I implement NFS on the server after the move? I do not think DFS is the best course because I do not expect my users to open File Explorer and put in the namespace to access the folder every time nor do I want to create a login script because I think that is to much overhead.
What are your thoughts on this?
Thanks!
I have a pool of 3x500GB where one the physical drives is having intermittent issues. Currently, there is only one parity Virtual Disk of 300GB Fixed across 3 columns. I want to replace the bad drive with a good one. The old way (pre-2012) was replace the disk, repair the RAID 5, resync and done. These basic steps are not working.
So far I have added a 4th 500GB drive to the pool. After searching and failing to find a way to move the data non-destructively, I decided to just pull the data cable on the disk I wanted to replace. After refresh/rescan, the disconnected drive shows "lost communication" and the virtual disk (after trying to repair) shows "unknown" (but the volume on that disk is accessible in Explorer). When I try to remove the physical disk in Server Manager, I get "The selected physical disk cannot be removed". Reading the error message, I see that the replacement disk cannot contain any part of a virtual disk. The replacement disk that I just added appears to have some space allocated (possibly because I have tried this same procedure a couple of times already?). When I look at the parity disk properties/health, it shows all four physical disks under "physical disks in use".
I have deleted and recreated a lot of storage pools lately while trying to understand how they work but I would like to avoid that this time. The data on the virtual disk in question is highly deduplicated and it took quite a while to get it that way. Since I can't find a way to copy/mirror the disk while keeping it fully deduplicated, I would need 3x the space to copy it all off, or a lot of time to load up and deduplicate a new virtual disk.
I have several questions:
1. How can a 3 column parity disk use parts of four physical disks? And can that be fixed without recreating the virtual disk?
2. When creating a virtual disk (for example a 3 column disk in a pool that has four or more physical drives), is there a way to specify which physical disks to use?
3. I understand that after a physical disk failure, the recovery process will move a virtual disk's allocation to a replacement disk, but can a virtual disk's allocation be moved manually among physical disks within the same storage pool
using a PS script?
4. Can a deduplicated virtual disk be moved/mirrored/backed up without expanding the data?
Any help is appreciated.
Hi.
There was anoying feature (some call it bug) when Windows 2008 R2 UAC blocks folder acces if You are member of local Administrators group and NTFS ACL is allowing only Adminitrators and other users /groups, but not You. There was possible to avoid this via turning off UAC and rebooting computer.
Now, with Windows server 2012 (RTM, VL) problem is worse. You can turn off UAC (and reboot,i hope it does full reboot) but nothing changes. Still You are prompted
"You don't currently have permissions to access this folder. Click Continue to permanently get access to this folder. Continue(with Shield mark) Cancel"
And if i click continue, my account is added to folder ACL. Havent found any way to bypass it.
This is idiotic. If we have multiple admisnitrators every admin SID is added (at some point). And people are coming and leaving - and ACE's remain. And btw - how it is related with "Use groups for granting permissions" best practice ? Only way is to create "File Administrators group" , make administrators member of this group and add this group to ACL. Lot, of lots of pointless work.
Dear MS - how should we resolve it? Any secret policy/registry key, hotfix coming ?
I've tried everything to fix this but I can't seem to find a way.
The disks are included below. The problem is Physicaldisk0 is failing and it will not remove from the Storage Pool. If I unplug the drive I can't mount the virtual disk at all. I have to then shut the server down and reattach the drive to mount the virtual disk.
Trying to remove it from Powershell nets this: PhysicalDisk : One of the physical disks specified could not be removed because it is still in use.
I've tried everything I can find. I added PhysicalDisk 7 to take over for 0 but no matter how many times I run a repair the virtual disk remains in a degraded state. Other than blowing away the entire pool I can't think of another way to fix this...
Glenn of xSyLent
I have two windows 7 x64 Ent non-SP1 builds. They were built with different ISOs. The ISOs are different sizes so there’s at that level something different between the two. But the difference I’ve found is how they move files around within the same volume. On build A when the contents of c:\A are moved to to c:\1 the newly moved contents of c:\1 have the inherited permission from c:\A. On build B when the contents of c:\B are moved to c:\2 the newly moved contents of c:\2 have the inherited permissions of c:\2.
First off, I’ve googled around on the Build A scenario and have found others having this result, as well as Microsoft addressing it as normal behavior (see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310316). That said, why does my Build B act different?
The problem is that I’ve written documentation for our support groups on how to manage file shares and they are getting different results with regards to permissions depending on what desktop they’re using. A workaround to this is to edit the documentation and insist that files always be copied within the same volume then delete the source, but I’d like to know what exactly is going on.
If you’re wondering why I have and are using two different ISOs, it’s because we’re a large org with different support groups.
I put this in the server forum because despite my example above this issue is happening when files are moved within the same mapped drive (which is a windows server).
Thanks!